Cousin Visit

Last Saturday my cousin Shelley and her family came to stay with us on their way back from Branson. It was so great seeing them. Growing up Shelley and I were inseparable. We were only 2 days apart and born in the same hospital. As we have gotten older and have started on our families it is hard to see each other. Even though it was a short visit we had a great time, especially our kids.

My Cousin Shelley and I

Blakely, Sophia(look at the red curly hair), Ian, Aidan and Lilly

HUGS

The girls love giving hugs to each other these days.

For the most part they are so sweet to each other.

Spaghetti Night

The other night we had spaghetti and it was Lilly's first experience with it. It's not that we didn't let her have it earlier than now its just I haven't made it in forever. She LOVED it. She had to have two baths. The first bath she left a ring of spaghetti sauce around the tub. Blakely is not a big fan of spaghetti, but finally gave in and ate some. B keep telling me "I want clean spaghetti." B is a pasta girl, but likes stuff plain. Silly girl...

Say A Prayer

I found out about this sweet little girl Cora from Keri's blog. Please say a prayer for this beautiful precious girl and her family. You can go to their blog at http://themcclenahans.blogspot.com/ to read her story.

Ice Storm 2009

Here are a few pics around our house. Luckily we only lost power for several minutes.

15 Months Old

Miss Lilly turned 15 months old last week. I'm just adding a few pics of her now and will add more about what she is doing later.

Razorback Gymnastics Fun

A few Fridays ago we headed up to go see the Gymbacks. We meet Keri, Caroline, Sara and Anna Kate. The girls had lots of fun. Blakely especially liked seeing the Razorback and the cheerleaders.

Caroline, Anna Kate and Blakely

Excited seeing the gymnasts being introduced

Calling the HOGS!
Sweet Girls

Blakely being Silly

This is FUN!!

Blakely and the Razorback

Blakely, Cheerleader and Anna Kate-this was the highlight of the night

Blakely and another cheerleader

Nana and Grandpa came to visit

After New Years Grandpa and Nana came to visit us. We all had a good time hanging out, searching for a cave and going to the movies. The girls love their Nana and had lots of fun with her!!

Christmas at Papaws and Grammy's

After the girls opened their presents we headed down to my parents. Blakely was super excited to go and see her cousins. We had a wonderful time except Lilly. She did not feel well the entire time. She ran fever and just was not herself at all. When we got back home we went to the doctor and she had a double ear infection and one ear was so bad she had to have drops. She is all better now.

Blakely had the best time with her cousins-She loves all the attention that she gets from them. They all laughed and played so much.
We all had a fun time at the movies, eating mexican and just hanging out.

I'm disappointed that I didn't take a lot of pictures of the whole family. It just gets so busy and you just forget.

Zach, Colby, Darby, Lilly and Blakely

Blakely opening presents

Lilly sitting in her new chair

Darby and Blakely Zach, Colby-acting crazy and Blakely- Art time

Lilly loves Colby-she did not feel well at all-poor thing.

Zach and Blakely

Daniel, Blakely and Zach

My sister in law-Terri, Colby and my brother Kenny

Me and Darby-she is all grown up

Blakely loves her some mexican food.

Christmas Morning 2008

It was an exciting Christmas morning at our house. Lilly woke up first so we decided to wake Blakely up. I told her that Santa had come and brought her and Lilly presents. She did not want to get out of bed. She normally takes a few minutes in the morning to wake up, so I didn't think anything about it. We keep telling her Santa came and left her presents and even went in the living room making a big deal about the presents and Blakely still stayed in bed. After several minutes she decided to come out and was hanging on Daniel's leg for dear life. Then I told her Santa just dropped off the presents and he wasn't here anymore and then she got very excited. Poor thing she thought Santa was still at our house and I guess she thought he was going to pop out of the cottage house and surprise her. Both girls were excited and loved seeing their cottage house and then opening other presents. Blakely just keep saying "oh my gosh, oh my gosh." Lilly tried her best at opening presents, but big sis had to help her out. They both got baby dolls, Lilly got a vacuum and Blakely got a horse and a dancing barbie plus stocking stuffers. After presents and stockings we all sat together and had our monkey bread. What a great Christmas we had as a family.

Look what Santa brought us!

The Girls love their new Rose Cottage

Blakely with her baby Cinderella

Lilly with her baby Ariel

Look at my dancing barbie

A vacuum just for me

We love our babies-Blakely reminds me they are babies not dolls.

Sweet Lilly with her baby-It actually crawls to me.

Christmas Eve 2008

This year we decided to stay at our house for Christmas morning-no traveling until after Santa comes to visit. We had a great time as a family. We were busy all day making treats for Santa and to take to Grammy and Papaws. We also made monkey bread for our Christmas morning breakfast. Blakely did a great job helping me this year.

That night we went to our church's Christmas eve service, ate at McDonalds-I know, but it's Blakely's favorite and then went to the Nutt's house to take over some goodies. When we got home we got everything ready for Santa to come. We wrote Santa a letter and left him cookies and some yummy cold milk. Blakely was excited about the whole Santa thing this year. Lilly was just trying to eat the cookies and play with the milk. We read the nativity story and then the girls headed to bed while Santa put everything together. We had such a great day!!

Blakely helping me with the baking

Sisterly Love

Lilly having fun

Blakely making sure I wrote what she said and sweet Lilly.

Look at our letter

Our treats for Santa

Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas Card

Thanks Heather for taking our girls pictures.

After Church

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